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May 13th, Stonetown News Express Online

Another victims?

During the last week the body count of the Stonetown Vampire victims have not increased. However, it is not much of a consolation as the whereabouts of Lance Jefferson remain unknown and another two young people have gone missing. Georgia Wells (on the picture on the right) and Caitlin Morgan (on the picture on the left) are both students at the Stonetown Community College and have last been seen at the wake in memory of the late Alice Jefferson, the last known victim of the mysterious serial murderer, two days ago (Saturday). The college authorities are asking their students not to go anywhere on their own, regardless of the hour of the day, and pay attention to their surroundings.

In addition, we encourage our readers to stay save and call the number below if you have any information regarding any of the missing persons.

Mark Webber

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Mark clicked the publish button and watched as his latest short update became available for all people to see. Ever since the murders and strange disappearances had started his site had much more traffic. Usually he wasn't complaining. He was a grown man after all and he wasn't afraid of being attacked by some lunatic who believed himself to be a vampire in need of human blood. But after what had gone down at the Stonetown Community College on Saturday Mark wasn't so sure that Yuli would be so easy to beat.

Seeing a blurry image that only vaguely resembled a person on the security footage at the bait shop Carl worked at, had not done much for him. He seemed like your average teenager and only actually seeing him attack that poor boy had managed to convince him that such a feeble creature was capable of killing another person. And only when Mark heard him sing he finally realized that Yuli couldn't possibly be your average human being, And he felt just how easily it would be for him to simply lure his victims with his silk voice into some dark corner and have them serve their blood to him in a glass if he demanded it.

And there was the whole thing that happened after Carl had gone to find Yuli. Mark was a reporter and a damn dedicated one at that (at least according to himself) and so of course he followed Carl with the camera of his cell phone still recording. He hoped to see Yuli up close, to hear the two of them talk and maybe put some of the pieces of the puzzles together so that everything would be ready for his big story to unfold.

The problem was that Mark didn't remember much after seeing Carl disappear into one of the restrooms. He could recall peeking into the room through the open door but that was pretty much it. After that there was just some vague images, shapes that didn't make much sense. As if he was in a dreamless slumber. He regained his senses a couple of hours later, laying on the floor of the hallway with his phone almost dead but still recording.

Mark had gone through the footage countless times but the screen was black as the phone had landed on the ground so unfortunately that the view of the camera was obscured by the door that had been swung open before anything interesting could have happened. There was still sound but no conversation had been exchanged that the camera could have caught, only some indistinguishable words from the bathroom.

First someone went somewhere and came back twice, each time taking him about twenty minutes. Then about an hour later there were two pairs of footsteps but they never came back. And then, a few minutes after they had faded away, someone else walked out of the bathroom and then went away. After that nothing else happened.

Mark kept watching the film but he knew that there wasn't anything he would find. Yet, he was certain that what had happened was the murder and the disposal of the bodies of Georgia and Caitlin. Mark was dumbfounded but just as excuted, he felt like he had stepped into something that was much bigger than Stonetown which had become like a war zone between impure powers and him, the only person that knew what was happening but wasn't completely beguiled yet.